Sprinter [1/2]

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| From : Denis Parinov, 2:5030/529.13 (19 Dec 97 04:34)
| To: All
| Subj: Sprinter [1/2]
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░ Transferred by: Denis Parinov (812/08.16)
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░ From: Ivan Mak, 2:5030/529.24 (14-Dec-97 06:17)
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░ Subject: Sprinter
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Hello All.

I would like to apologize in advance for possible
violations that may appear in this message. Today I went online for the first time and, frankly, I don’t know all the rules yet.
I’m sitting behind the editor of Golded for the first time and I’m not yet sure that this message will go anywhere. Previously, I did not have a telephone or a modem and could only read the files transferred to me from the Spectrum echoes.

Well, let's go..

So this long-awaited moment has come.
1. Sprinter is not a printer.
2. Sprinter is a computer.
3.Sprinter is a machine based on the Z84C15...
4 processor. Sprinter is a machine based on ALTERA chips.
5. Sprinter is KR1818VG93.
6. The Sprinter is...a lot more...
The Z84C15 includes the Z80 processor. This is Zilog!
I will not quote phrases about the compatibility of various
processors like the Z80. The only incompatibility between Z84C15 and Z84C00 is that the former has built-in ports. Everything else
COMPATIBLE!
Iron incompatibility is a myth. The entire circuit is built
on a large programmable chip, which can
be reconfigured from a regular file. In addition to the processor
and programmable logic chip, the machine has
interface circuits for connecting floppy drives, IDE hard drives
and CD-ROMs, Microsift-Mouse mice, IBM-AT keyboards.. I will not
repeat what is already known to many.
Sprinter has the ability to which has not yet been found in any more or less known machine:
the ability to CHANGE THE ELECTRICAL DIAGRAM of the computer.
This means that the user can change the circuit
of the machine depending on what is required by a specific
program. The machine allows you not to emulate, but to HAVE the circuit
Spectrum-48/128, Pentagon-128, Scorpion-ZS-256, etc. with
many variations. Sprinter allows you to switch the car
to a completely different mode, for example, (who remembersthere was once
such OUR car) ORION-128.
All possible options, of course, at the moment
do not exist yet.
AND NEVER WILL BE.
There are more possible options for the scheme than the number of people
on planet Earth.
Such flexibility of the scheme may frighten someone. There is no
specific scheme, which means there is no possibility to write
programs for it.
Writing programs for Sprinter is no more difficult than for Spectrum.
There are quite a lot of options.
1. Write programs for the ZX-Spectrum 48/128, counting on
the high speed of the machine (approximately 300,000 cycles/int) and
on the presence of a RAM-Disk of up to 1Mb, which can be turned on like
a regular TR-DOS disk.
2. Write programs for the Sprinter mode, in which all functions
for working with peripherals are provided by BIOS programs.
BIOS functions are constructed in such a way as to allow
the programmer to obtain maximum performance.
3. Come up with your own machine configuration, write Soft
for it and create a new task with rebooting the machine’s circuit.
Such programs can have 100% protection against hacking, since
an attacker will rack his brain for a long time about what kind of circuit
the machine has.

The question arises with the launch of all these programs. The answer is simple. This is the task of the operating system, not the program itself.
The program should only contain a label that shows
how andin what mode to run it. For all old programs
ZX-Spectrum, this label already exists - this is the TR-DOS disk format.
The operating system recognizes the disk format and launches it
accordingly.

All of the above are ideas that are implemented in
the Sprinter computer.

7. Mast_die is not Sprinter.
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Glad to welcome you, All!

That's it.

Sincerely, Denis.

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Get Msg,All!

Please note that Sprinter developers have their own FIDO address...

Warm greetings, Slava!